Favorite Directors
by arsenal_emil_valencia | created - 25 May 2012 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicAlphabetical order.
I have also listed the films of theirs I've seen from favorite to least favorite.
1. Robert Altman
Director | Gosford Park
Robert Altman was born on February 20th, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, to B.C. (an insurance salesman) and Helen Altman. He entered St. Peters Catholic school at the age six, and spent a short time at a Catholic high school. From there, he went to Rockhurst High School. It was then that he started...
Short Cuts (1993) The Long Goodbye (1973) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) The Player (1992) Images (1972) Dr. T and the Women (2000) MASH (1970) Thieves Like Us (1974) Brewster McCloud (1970) Nashville (1975)
2. Wes Anderson
Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Bottle Rocket (1996) The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Isle of Dogs (2018) Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Life Aquatic (2004) Rushmore (1998) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
3. Gregg Araki
Writer | Mysterious Skin
Gregg Araki was born on December 17, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Mysterious Skin (2004), White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) and Kaboom (2010).
Nowhere (1997) Mysterious Skin (2004) Totally F***ed Up (1993) White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) The Doom Generation (1995) Now Apocalypse (2019) This is How the World Ends (2000) Smiley Face (2007) Kaboom (2010) Splendor (1999)
4. Ingmar Bergman
Writer | Smultronstället
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, 1918, the son of a priest. The film and T.V. series, The Best Intentions (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The film Sunday's Children (1992) depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the miniseries Private Confessions (...
The Seventh Seal (1957) Fanny and Alexander (1982) The Magician (1958) Persona (1966) Face to Face (1976) The Autumn Sonata (1978) Cries and Whispers (1972) The Hour of the Wolf (1968) Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) Crisis (1946) Through a Glass Darkly (1961) Wild Strawberries (1957) The Virgin Spring (1960) The Silence (1963) Summer with Monika (1953) Brink of Life (1958) The Passion of Anna (1969) Shame (1968) The Serpent's Egg (1977)
5. Enzo G. Castellari
Director | Colpi di luce
Enzo G. Castellari was born on July 29, 1938 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and actor, known for Light Blast (1985), Warriors of the Wasteland (1983) and The Big Racket (1976). He has been married to Mirella since December 17, 1961. They have two children.
Street Law (1974) The Big Racket (1976) Day of the Cobra (1980) 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982) The Inglorious Bastards (1978) The Last Shark (1981)
6. David Cronenberg
Actor | The Fly
David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father, Milton Cronenberg, was a journalist and editor, and his mother, Esther (Sumberg), was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early...
Naked Lunch (1991) Shivers (1975) Rabid (1977) The Brood (1979) Videodrome (1983) Dead Ringers (1988) Maps to the Stars (2014) Eastern Promises (2007) M. Butterfly (1993) Crash (1996) The Fly (1986) A History of Violence (2005) Scanners (1981) The Dead Zone (1983) Spider (2002)
7. David Fincher
Director | Se7en
David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials...
Zodiac (2007) The Social Network (2010) Gone Girl (2014) Seven (1995) Mank (2020) Fight Club (1999) Panic Room (2002) The Game (1997) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
8. Alfred Hitchcock
Director | Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...
Rear Window (1954) Rope (1948) North by Northwest (1959) The 39 Steps (1935) To Catch a Thief (1955) Vertigo (1958) Dial M for Murder (1954) The Birds (1963) Notorious! (1946) Frenzy (1972) The Lady Vanishes (1938) Family Plot (1976) Strangers on a Train (1951) Psycho (1960) Rebecca (1940) Foreign Correspondent (1940) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Suspicion (1941) Lifeboat (1944) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) The Wrong Man (1956) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
9. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...
Twin Peaks (1990-1991) Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) Mulholland Drive (2001) Blue Velvet (1986) Inland Empire (2006) Lost Highway (1997) Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014) Rabbits (2002) Eraserhead (1977) The Elephant Man (1980) Wild at Heart (1990) Dune (1984)
10. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
Inception (2010) Memento (2000) Insomnia (2002) The Prestige (2006) Dunkirk (2017) The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Batman Begins (2005) Interstellar (2014) Tenet (2020) The Dark Knight (2008) Following (1998)
11. Ruben Östlund
Director | Triangle of Sadness
Ruben Östlund was born on April 13, 1974 in Styrsö, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He is a director and editor, known for Triangle of Sadness (2022), Force Majeure (2014) and The Square (2017). He was previously married to Andrea Östlund.
Force Majeure (2014) The Square (2017) Play (2011) Involuntary (2008)
12. Alan J. Pakula
Producer | Sophie's Choice
Alan J. Pakula was an American film director, writer and producer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Best Director for All the President's Men (1976) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sophie's Choice (1982).
He also directed Presumed Innocent (...
Presumed Innocent (1990) All the President's Men (1976) Dream Lover (1986) Klute (1971) The Pelican Brief (1993) The Parallax View (1974) The Devil's Own (1997)
13. Benny Safdie
Actor | Good Time
Born and raised in New York City: in both Queens & Manhattan. He attended the school of Communication at Boston University. He often collaborates with his brother Josh Safdie. He is a director, writer, editor and actor known for Daddy Longlegs(2009),Heaven Knows What(2014), Good Time (2017), Uncut ...
aka The Safdie Brothers
Uncut Gems (2019)
Good Time (2017)
14. Steven Soderbergh
Director | Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Steven Andrew Soderbergh was born on January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the second of six children of Mary Ann (Bernard) and Peter Soderbergh. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother was of Italian ancestry. While he was still at a very young age, his family moved to ...
Out of Sight (1998) Ocean's Eleven (2001) Haywire (2012) Logan Lucky (2017) The Limey (1999) The Underneath (1995) Magic Mike (2012) High Flying Bird (2019) Contagion (2011) Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989) The Knick (2014-2015) Ocean's Thirteen (2007) Kafka (1991) Ocean's Twelve (2004) The Good German (2006) Unsane (2018) The Laundromat (2019) No Sudden Move (2021) Side Effects (2013) Erin Brockovich (2000) Bubble (2005)
15. Whit Stillman
Director | Love & Friendship
Whit Stillman was born in 1952 and raised in Cornwall in upstate New York, the son of a impoverished debutante from Philadelphia and a Democratic politician from Washington D.C. Stillman graduated from Harvard in 1973 and started out as a journalist in Manhattan, New York City.
In 1980 he met and ...
Barcelona (1994) The Last Days of Disco (1998) Metropolitan (1990) Damsels in Distress (2011) Love & Friendship (2016)
16. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
Jackie Brown (1997) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) Pulp Fiction (1994) The Hateful Eight (2015) Inglorious Basterds (2009) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 (2003/2004) Django Unchained (2012) Death Proof (2007)
17. Denis Villeneuve
Director | Dune
Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He was born in 1967, in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He started his career as a filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada. He is best known for his feature films Arrival (2016), Sicario (2015), Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), ...
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Sicario (2015) Prisoners (2013) Arrival (2016) Enemy (2014) Incendies (2010) Dune (2021) Dune Part Two (2024)
18. Kar-Wai Wong
Director | Yi dai zong shi
Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1956) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Ah fei zing zyun (1990), Dung che sai duk (1994), Chung Hing sam lam (1994), Do lok tin si (1995), Chun gwong ...
Chungking Express (1994) Ashes of Time (1994) Fallen Angels (1995) In the Mood for Love (2000) Days of Being Wild (1990)
19. S. Craig Zahler
Writer | Bone Tomahawk
S. Craig Zahler was born on January 23, 1973 in Miami, Florida, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Bone Tomahawk (2015), Dragged Across Concrete (2018) and Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017).
Dragged Across Concrete (2019) Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017) Bone Tomahawk (2015)
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